“Seeing people for who they are, and not just customers of one carrier or another, is what really made this story possible,” Delta said in a statement to USA Today. “While we are in the travel business, we see ourselves as in the people business first and we couldn’t be happier that these students were able to make their trip.”

American Airlines also sent a statement to the publication. It said more than 300 others were canceled that weekend due to weather.

“We do apologize for the cancellation,” it said, “which was the result of inclement weather that was out of our control.”